The cavities of microwave heating devices need to be carefully designed in order to ensure safe, efficient operation and homogeneous field distributions. The size, the number of modes and the resonant...
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In this article we discuss the design and implementation of high-power-microwave (HPM) traveling-wave antenna.
The antenna is designed to be driven by a high-power, single-shot signal generator with 1...
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A typical smartphone handset can contain numerous different RF systems, including multi-band cellular antennas, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and navigation systems such as GPS and GLONASS. All these systems...
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It is difficult to obtain off-the-shelf solutions for furnace and converter transformers as well as transformers for High Voltage Direct Current for ratings greater than 200 MVA. Siemens Energy uses...
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Electromagnetic field simulation offers an inisght into the influence of component placement in power engineering equipment which is otherwise difficult, expensive or impossible to obtain in test and...
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One common application of printed arrays is in wireless local area networks (WLAN). This article explains the design process for a planar microstrip patch array for WLAN frequencies using the circuit...
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AREAL (Advanced Research Electron Accelerator Laboratory) is the laser driven RF gun based electron linear accelerator project at CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute in Armenia. The aim of the...
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This application note illustrates how CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®, Antenna Magus and Optenni Lab can be used in combination to improve an existing GSM tracking device application. The requirement was...
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The modern car includes an ever-increasing number of wireless systems. These require an assortment of different antennas, often mounted in close proximity. Coupling between these antennas can lead to...
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When designing a chip for a high-speed application, it's not only
the behavior of the IC itself that counts. The whole channel, including
the package and the printed circuit board (PCB), affects the...
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Test Equipment Plus, Inc. provides service and support for the used test and measurement equipment market. They also design, manufacture and sell the Signal Hound® line of portable spectrum...
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When a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a power plane that is near to signal traces or other power planes, there is a significant risk of energy transfer between parts of the system. Not only does...
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Cables not only transfer the power needed to run electrical equipment,
but also the data signals needed to operate them. To prevent errors and device failures, the same attention must be paid to the...
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Modern MRI systems are highly complex devices, and the interaction between the body and MRI coils introduces additional challenges into the design process. The body, with its complicated heterogeneous...
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This paper presents
a multiphysics simulation of a magnetron using CST STUDIO SUITE®, with the aim of testing the
electrical, magnetic, thermal and mechanical characteristics of a...
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Electromagnetic environmental effects (E3) can cause electronic devices to malfunction or fail altogether. The behavior of aircraft when exposed to a HIRF environment can be simulated effectively...
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As digital circuits became faster, direct coupling among power planes in multilayer printed circuit boards (PCB) became a major concern for signal integrity/power integrity and electromagnetic...
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Heat sinks transfer generated heat in an electric system away from the active and passive electronic components and toward the ambient environment. This article describes thermal management via...
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Electrically large structures such as aircrafts, ships, land vehicles and satellites have demanding and complex electromagnetic environments. CST STUDIO SUITE® brings together 20 years of...
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The presence of multiple communication antennas on a tower means that antennas may have to be installed
in sub-optimal positions. Electromagnetic simulation can be used to design the antennas...
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Impedance matching is an essential part of antenna design. The input impedance of an antenna needs to be reasonably close to the amplifier impedance (e.g. 50 Ohm), otherwise the signal is reflected...
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This whitepaper gives a general overview on different concepts of photonic crystal cavities. The presented information will
help the reader to decide which type of photonic crystal cavities will be...
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"CST software has definitely improved our knowledge about EM fields. With the newly obtained knowledge we can now better advise potential customers. We believe that this puts us ahead of our...
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Differential (DIFF) transmission lines are generally considered to be one of the most commonly used passive interconnect structures for high speed data transmission. Typically there are two...
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n this paper a modular approach using the so-called System Assembly and Modeling (SAM) of CST STUDIO SUITE® is used to optimize a reflector antenna system in a piecewise manner. The results are...
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By law, products must comply with international EMC standards which have been developed to regulate electromagnetic emissions and the susceptibility of
electrical and electronic systems. Striking a...
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Continental - a
global manufacturer of premium automotive
multimedia systems for the OEM
market - has applied state-of-the-art
electromagnetic simulation techniques
in the design of its latest car...
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CST EM STUDIO® (CST EMS) has a myriad of features which facilitates the generation of complex geometries, accurate results and rapid simulation. The article showcases an integrated approach to...
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For dielectric breakdown analysis, a common procedure is applied which is based on obtaining the field data from FE electrostatic field analyses. This article uses the simulation of a shielding ring...
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In this application note, the radiation pattern of a wire monopole mounted atop the fuselage of an Airbus
A320 is predicted using Savant and compared with a full-wave method-of-moments (MoM) solution....
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Electromagnetic field simulation is an extremely useful tool in the design and analysis of touchscreen devices. The capacitance matrix is extracted for complex electrode systems and can take into...
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To enable widespread adoption of satellite broadband, especially for mobile users, Kymeta is developing and marketing mobile satellite communications terminals using a new reconfigurable antenna...
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